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Nottingham, United Kingdom

Warrington, United Kingdom

The QA & Development manager within the UEM product line reporting to the Development Director. I was responsible for the DataNow product line.• Created and executed on a balanced roadmap centered on delivering value to customers. This transformed the DataNow product’s primary use case to become key to the company portfolio and future revenue growth• Adjusted the performance and scale approach to design a custom application to mimic the file server response to avoid bandwidth and IOPS bottlenecks caused by hardware limitations. This allowed us to ensure we test the limitations of the appliance stack not the hardware.• Managed the team’s adoption to SCRUM, splitting into two teams, incorporating ceremonies, using physical boards• Designed and moved the physical board to TFS so remote team members could view the board. This was not possible with a physical board.• Adjusted the test, development and build strategies to support SCRUM adoption• Set teams yearly performance and career path plans and supported the team through monthly 1-1’s to help achieve these

Warrington, United Kingdom

QA manager within Data and Analytics division reporting directly to the divisions Development Director. I was responsible for the DataNow product line• Involved in creating the DataNow product roadmap and prioritizing the backlog with the Head of Division, Product Manager and Component Dev Leads.• Created the test strategies and plans for the DataNow 3.6, 3.6 update 1 and update 2 releases• Resourced, managed and reported on the test efforts for the DataNow releases.• Adjusted the test strategy to adopt a risk based targeted regression approach. This more than halved the cost of running regression with minimal risk and was further mitigated by the ongoing automation effort.• Reviewed requirements and designs creating the supporting test scopes and scenarios for key features • Migrated the test artefacts from JIRA to TFS and created all the QA reporting dashboards for teams, products and releases for the division• Took on the responsibility of performance, scale and soak testing. I reviewed current strategy and adjusted to incorporate new tests based around customer use cases/data and destructive scenarios to validate appliance resilience.• Lead the designing of the performance environment, purchased required hardware and managed the implementation of the environment.• Mentored and development a graduate and a support engineer into a Senior Test Engineers.• Set teams yearly performance and career path plans and supported the team through monthly 1-1’s to help achieve these

Warrington, United Kingdom

The UK QA Lead within the Mobile Division reporting to the US QA Manager. I was responsible for the DataNow and NextGen product lines• Created the test strategies and plans for the DataNow 3.0 & 3.5 releases• Resourced, managed and reported on the test efforts for the DataNow releases. This involved multiple cross-site and time zone stakeholders, developers, testers and product managers.• Review of requirements and designs creating the supporting test scopes and scenarios• Managed the remote outsourced QA teams in Indian and Vietnam• Migrated the test artefacts from Test Director to JIRA and created all the QA reporting dashboards for teams, products and releases for the Mobile Division• Established relationships within the Support organisation to better align the departments and utilise the strengths of both teams to the benefit of the product• Instigated and led the review of our internal test environments and the subsequent designing of new environments that emulated customer environments.• Created an automation strategy for the DataNow product and hired talent to facilitate the implementation of the strategy• Set teams yearly performance and career path plans and supported the team through monthly 1-1’s to help achieve these

Warrington, United Kingdom

Ensuring new products or new features, enhancements and sustainability work to existing products met the requirements, designs and quality gates. • Implemented and lead a process to accelerate the conversion of old manual tests into automated scripts and thus reduce the cost of regression testing• Lead the test effort to investigate Windows 8 compatibility issues with our Application Manager product. Implementing Rapid Software Testing techniques recently coached by in house sessions delivered by Michael Bolton• Created the Environment Manager 8.1 test report that documented the 12+mth testing exercise and overall outcomes of the testing performed.• Passed the companies own internal examination on its products and accredited as an AppSense Certified Professional• Automated the User Rights Management feature in Application Manager that involves manipulating user tokens to elevate applications that others had previously failed. In process the automation framework was expanded.• Selected as part of the team to attended the 2012 Eurostar Test Conference in Amsterdam

Lead the Test and Release teams responsible for testing new features and improvements made to multiple third party applications by third party development houses.• Brought in to set up the test team I created the test procedures, strategies, recruited internal talent and coached into a successful test team• Planned and resourced the testing and deployment of multiple work streams, across different third party development houses, internal departments and stakeholders• Ensured that the design and implementation met the stakeholders needs and our own quality gates• Created and executed test cases and designed and set up supporting test data• Planned and executed UAT sessions on new feature and enhancements with relevant departmental users and stakeholders, ensuring feedback was captured and incorporated into the development cycle• Organised and ran the monthly release/upgrade to production environments of third party applications• Created and implemented the release procedure to ensure rollbacks were in place and verified, test upgrades had been performed and sign off from relevant parties needed before upgrade to production could be performed• Delivered a new fee’s calculation engine for their Insolvency application which was responsible for calculating 80% of the company’s revenue• Managed the customization, UAT and implementation of a new third party application to meet the new business venture of debt management plans

Crewe, United Kingdom

Team lead for the internal test team, I was responsible for test strategy and continual improvement, ensuring features developed met requirements and were fit for purpose, organising and running UAT and developing test talent within the company

Crewe, United Kingdom

Responsible for the creating and executing of test cases, raising and monitoring bugs, arranging and running UAT for the features assigned to me and mentoring assisting other team members when needed

Crewe, United Kingdom

Leading the team responsible for importing new sales sold via Phones4U, executing and reviewing the customer billing runs, analysing trends and keeping customer information up to date.

Data entry of all unit shares brought and soldElectronic transfer of all monies owed to companiesEnsuring all companies paid monies owed in timeframe requiredBalancing customer accountsAuthorising payments to customers